Darn you Microsoft!

[PIEBALDconsult]

Darn you to Yuma! I have been doing some work with Extension Methods for Regular Expressions in .net this week. One in particular can be used like this: MatchCollection m = somestring.Matches ( somepattern ) ; This works fine. The method instantiates a Regex object for the specified pattern and returns the result of Matches ( somestring ). I've been using this for a while now. Buuut... today I discovered that the MatchCollection and Match classes don't provide access to the Regex object that produced them! Which means I can't iterate the group names -- only the Regex class provides the GetGroupNames() method. (They both have private a field for the Regex.) Regex.GetGroupNames Method (System.Text.RegularExpressions)[^] So, when I need to iterate the group names, I can't use my Extension Method. :sigh:

[RickZeeland]

You could download the .NET core source code and fix it :-\

[Ron Anders]

Yuma.... how cruel your judgments. :-D

[Richard Deeming]

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

So, when I need to iterate the group names, I can't use my Extension Method.

Why not?

Match theMatch = ...;
foreach (Group g in theMatch.Groups)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{g.Name}: {g.Value}");
}

Match.Groups property[^] Group.Name property[^]

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Version Information Available since 4.7 No use to me.

[Richard Deeming]

What, you mean you don't upgrade to the latest version the second it's released? :rolleyes:

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Neither does SQL Server.